Senate Bill 0362

DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Interstate enforcement of protective orders. Conforms Indiana law to the Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Protective Orders Act by: (1) providing that an Indiana court may not enforce a foreign protection order issued by the tribunal of a state that does not recognize the standing of a protected individual to seek enforcement of the order; and (2) specifying that if one or more of the criteria for determining whether a protection order is facially valid do not apply to a foreign protection order, the inapplicability of the criteria to the foreign protection order is an affirmative defense in an action seeking enforcement of the order.